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"The immediate problem with our meat brains is that they have no back-up. We can lose the most precious information we have from one bump on the head or stroke. You want a mind system with back-up that can access other databases."
- Bart Kosko
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| Memory Biochip | ||
| An implanted device that permits the user to 'play back' selected memories. |
| "Lieutenant Illyan also has an eidetic memory biochip. You may think of him as a recording device with legs, which the Emperor may play back at will." |
| Technovelgy from Shards of Honor,
by Lois McMaster Bujold. Published by Baen Books in 1986 Additional resources -
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